IN BRIEF

Sunday

A 57-year-old Daytona Beach hotel manager has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for luring a 13-year-old boy to the hotel to make child pornography.

Federal prosecutors said Dennis Brian Devlin was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in April to sexually exploiting a child. He also got probation and must give up his financial interest in the Desert Inn hotel.

Prosecutors say Devlin and another man lured the child to the hotel in January and got him to engage in sexually explicit behavior for his cameras.

Authorities raided the hotel in February and found images of the child and other child pornography.

Devlin's co-defendant, 21-year-old Michael Ehmen, pleaded guilty to the same charge and will sentenced next month.

CLEARWATER

Missing-girl case leads to arrest

Authorities have arrested a man they say abducted an 11-year-old Clearwater girl.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement had issued an Amber Alert for Savanna Emanuelle Demetro on Friday after she left her home to go to a movie. She was found alive in an Orlando apartment later that day.

On Saturday, Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies said Richie Urich had been charged with lewd and lascivious behavior. He also has warrants for interfering with child custody and traveling to meet a minor.

He is being held in Orange County jail without bound. Additional charges are pending.

RIVERVIEW

Two fatally shot at house party

Authorities Saturday were investigating after two people died in a shooting at a southwest Florida house party.

Shortly after midnight, Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies responded to the house and saw more than 100 teenagers in the streets running away.

A female victim was found dead at the scene. Another man was found with gunshot wounds and later died at the hospital.

LARGO

Hit-and-run

driver is sought

Authorities were searching Saturday for a southwest Florida driver who hit a 28-year-old man, dragged him 300 feet and then left the scene. The Florida Highway Patrol said Richard Slate was standing on the corner of the road Friday night when a vehicle making a sharp turn veered off the road and hit him.

Slate was trapped in the vehicle's undercarriage and dragged 300 feet until the vehicle reversed and freed him. Slate was hospitalized in critical condition.

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